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Voici la couronne « Kitakaze », le vent du nord . Une quarantaine de papiers japonais pliés et découpés selon la technique du kirigami !
#mastoart #Japon #petitcréateur #cadeau #noel #noel2025 #couronne #doré #gift #artisanat #faitmain #lille #artiste

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 15 Lucifer himself

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<p>Dante and Virgil move on from their encounter with Count Ugolino towards a great contraption that looks like a windmill from the distance. As they grow closer, they pass by shades of the dead frozen and stacked up.</p>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_42503" style="width: 1610px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/kochinfernostudy.jpg"><img alt="kochinfernostudy" class="size-full wp-image-42503" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/kochinfernostudy.jpg?w=940" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-42503">Joseph Anton Koch (1768-1839), Hell (study for Casa Massimo frescoes) (c 1825), watercolour and gouche, dimensions and location not known. Wikimedia Commons.</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_42501" style="width: 1534px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/kochinfernodevil.jpg"><img alt="kochinfernodevil" class="size-full wp-image-42501" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/kochinfernodevil.jpg?w=940" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-42501">Joseph Anton Koch (1768-1839), Lucifer (1825-28), fresco, dimensions not known, Casa Massimo, Rome, Italy. Image by Sailko, via Wikimedia Commons.</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_42502" style="width: 1332px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/kochinfernodevild1.j

Gustave Doré’s paintings: After the war

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<p>With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Gustave Doré volunteered to serve in the National Guard. When he was trapped in the siege of Paris, he seized the opportunity to paint his friend the actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), in what was probably the first portrait in her long and glittering career.</p>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_30890" style="width: 1055px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/dorebernhardt.jpg"><img alt="dorebernhardt" class="size-full wp-image-30890" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/dorebernhardt.jpg?w=940" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-30890">Gustave Doré (1832–1883), Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt (1870), oil on canvas, 65.5 × 54 cm, location not known. Wikimedia Commons.</figcaption></figure>
<p>She was only twenty-six at the time, and was just starting a string of successful performances in the city’s Odéon theatre. During the siege she took charge of converting the theatre into a hospital that cared for more than 150 patients. When it re-opened as a theatre the following year, Bernhardt took the lead for a highly successful run. On its opening night, Victor Hugo, author of the play, knelt and kissed her hand.</p>
<p>Doré also produced a series of moving sketches showing the destruction and suffering in Paris at the time of its siege in the autumn of that year.</p>
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Gustave Doré’s paintings: Before the war

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<p>If you’ve read any of my articles retelling narratives like Dante’s <em>Inferno,</em> you’ll be familiar with the illustrations of Gustave Doré (1832–1883), who is among the most prolific and famous in Europe. His prints overshadow his paintings, the subject of this and tomorrow’s article, and he was also a sculptor. Some of his landscapes are outstanding, but as they were produced during the era of Impressionism have been cast aside by history. In these two articles I concentrate on his narrative oil paintings, for if anyone understood narrative art, it should surely be such a prolific and successful illustrator.</p>
<p>Doré was a precocious child, and started his career as a caricaturist for a newspaper at the age of 15. By the 1850s his illustrations were being commissioned by major publishers in both France and Britain, including those for a new illustrated English Bible. Here are two prints from that work published in 1866.</p>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_9231" style="width: 979px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/dorejudithholofernes.jpg"><img alt="dorejudithholofernes" class="size-full wp-image-9231" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/dorejudithholofernes.jpg?w=940" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-9231">Gustave Doré (1832–1883), Judith and Holofernes (1866), print from illustrated edition of the Bible.</figcaption></figure>
<p>The first

Today's pick: Ezra Reads the Law to the People (1865) - Gustave Doré. #art #Doré #BabylonianCaptivityAndReturn

https://www.artbible.info/art/large/1032.html

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/pages/216-big-and-little/

A somewhat gruesome scene from Tomb Thumb, illustrated by Gustave Doré, in the bedroom of the giant ogre & his wife.

The emotions of the children (who actually appear to be shrunken adults in the picture) and of the wife are especially well portrayed.

Probably an electrotype copy of the original plate, with cracks i partly fixed in #GIMP3

#fobo #GIMP #vintageArt #ogre #tomThumb #engraving #Doré #Gimp_3

Seven tiny children—or rather, seven children in an oversized room—no taller than the ankles of the ogre bending over to pick them up. The children are praying, supplication, kneeling (one barefoot) but to no avail. Behind him. the ogre’s wife looks on with dismay as the ogre, giant knife in hand, pulls the boys from under the bed.

Black and white engraving from 1883.

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 14 Count Ugolino

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<p>After meeting some political traitors, Dante and Virgil have come across Count Ugolino, who is gnawing the back of the head of Archbishop Ruggieri as a dog chews a bone. Their story is one of the most famous and horrific in the whole of the <em>Divine Comedy.</em></p>
<p>Ugolino raises his mouth from the cleric’s head and wipes his lips on his victim’s hair. He then introduces himself and the Archbishop. He explains how he, a leading politician at the time, was imprisoned with his young sons and left to starve to death. In his hunger he tried gnawing his own hands, but his sons suggested that their father should eat them instead.</p>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_42295" style="width: 1028px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/davincipugolino.jpg"><img alt="davincipugolino" class="size-full wp-image-42295" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/davincipugolino.jpg?w=940" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-42295">Pierino da Vinci (1530–1553), Count Ugolino and his Children in Prison, Visited by Hunger (date not known), pen and black ink, brown wash, and pierre noire, 24 x 23.7 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, France. Wikimedia Commons.</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_42299" style="width: 1039px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/stradanoc33a.jpg"><img alt="stradanoc33a" class="size-full wp-image

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 12 Fraud and inciting division

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<p>After they have talked with the notorious thief Vanni Fucci, Dante and Virgil move on and meet a centaur, identified by Virgil as Cacus, who had been killed by Hercules. Dante’s classical reference here is a little strange in that he gives an account of the killing of Cacus according to Livy, rather than Virgil’s version in his <em>Aeneid.</em></p>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_41977" style="width: 1200px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/flaxmancentaur.jpg"><img alt="flaxmancentaur" class="size-full wp-image-41977" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/flaxmancentaur.jpg?w=940" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-41977">John Flaxman (1755–1826), And I Saw a Centaur (Divine Comedy) (1793), engraving by Tommaso Piroli from original drawing, media and dimensions not known, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY. Wikimedia Commons.</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_41970" style="width: 1452px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/blakecentaurcacus.jpg"><img alt="blakecentaurcacus" class="size-full wp-image-41970" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/blakecentaurcacus.jpg?w=940" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-41970">William Blake (1757–1827), The Centaur Cacus Threatens Vanni Fucci (Dante’s Inferno) (1824-27), watercolour, 52.5 x 37 cm, The Tate

Last Week on My Mac: Tahoe’s elephant

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<p>Among the foundations of visual design are two essential insights, into understanding human vision, and the experience gained from our long history of visual communication. Common to both is the importance of tone (brightness, lightness, etc.) and its contrasts. Not only do around one in twenty males struggle to distinguish some or most colours, but all of us rely on tone to interpret what we see in the absence of information from colours.</p>
<p>This has been illustrated throughout the history of visual art, where those who have excelled in visual communication have placed particular emphasis on tone. Consider Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553) as an example of proven classical methods.</p>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_13870" style="width: 1061px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cranachmartyrdomstcatherine.jpg"><img alt="cranachmartyrdomstcatherine" class="size-full wp-image-13870" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cranachmartyrdomstcatherine.jpg?w=940" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-13870">Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553), The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine (1504-5), oil on wood, 112 x 95 cm, Dunamelléki Református Egyházkerület Budapest, Kecskemét, Budapest, Hungary. Wikimedia Commons.</figcaption></figure>
<p>We know a lot about the tonal modelling that Cranach used in his <em>Martyrdom of Saint Catherine</em> painted in 1504-5, through the infra-red reflecto

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 11 Bribery, hypocrisy, theft

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<p>When a group of devils armed with long hooks threatens Dante, Virgil hurries him along towards the next rottenpocket in Hell. They work their way around some of the damage wrought by Christ’s harrowing of Hell following his crucifixion. With those devils still hanging around, they then reach a pit of boiling tar, in which the spirits of barrators are trapped. These had traded in public office and bought influence in courts of law.</p>
<p>The devils pull out one of the souls for Dante and Virgil to talk to, but quickly return to hacking with their hooks.</p>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_41797" style="width: 1199px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/flaxmanc22.jpg"><img alt="flaxmanc22" class="size-full wp-image-41797" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/flaxmanc22.jpg?w=940" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-41797">John Flaxman (1755–1826), Canto 22 (Divine Comedy) (1793), engraving by Tommaso Piroli from original drawing, media and dimensions not known, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY. Wikimedia Commons.</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_41792" style="width: 854px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/dore23v52.jpg"><img alt="dore23v52" class="size-full wp-image-41792" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/dore23v52.jpg?w=940" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="capt

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 10 Fraud

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<p>In their descent into the depths of Hell, Virgil and Dante have just entered circle eight for those who committed fraud in its broadest sense. This consists of what Dante refers to as <em>malebolge,</em> best translated as <em>rottenpockets,</em> a series of ten deep trenches each of which caters for a different type of fraud. Dante compares these to the defensive earthworks surrounding the outer walls of castles of the day.</p>
<p>Virgil leads Dante into the first of these rottenpockets, where souls are being lashed by demons to keep them moving constantly. These are pimps and seducers, among whom is a Bolognese man, a Guelph, who pimped his sister, the beautiful Ghisolabella, for political gain.</p>
<p>The pair move on past other sinners being scourged, where they see Jason, who seduced then abandoned the young Hypsipyle, queen of Lemnos, and later did the same with Medea. They then enter the second rottenpocket, for flatterers, who are wallowing in excrement.</p>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_41636" style="width: 1136px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/stradanoc18.jpg"><img alt="stradanoc18" class="size-full wp-image-41636" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/stradanoc18.jpg?w=940" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-41636">Jan van der Straet, alias Giovanni Stradano (1523-1605), Canto 18 (1587), further details not known. Image by Sailko, via Wikimedia Commons.</figcap

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 9 Violence against God

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<p>From their tragic encounter with tormented souls in the Suicide Wood, Virgil leads Dante onto a barren and sandy plain, where groups of spirits are in different postures, naked under steady showers of flakes of fire. These fall on their flesh, and set the sand afire underneath them. They are being punished for their differing acts of violence against God: blasphemers lie flat on their backs, sodomites are moving at all times, and usurers crouch with purses strung from their necks.</p>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_41476" style="width: 1368px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/doreviolentrainoffire.jpg"><img alt="doreviolentrainoffire" class="size-full wp-image-41476" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/doreviolentrainoffire.jpg?w=940" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-41476">Gustave Doré (1832–1883), The Violent, Tortured in the Rain of Fire (c 1857), engraving, dimensions and location not known. Image by Karl Hahn, via Wikimedia Commons.</figcaption></figure>
<p>The two talk with Capaneus, a huge man who was once a powerful king and waged war against the city of Thebes, and a blasphemer who was struck by a thunderbolt for his arrogance towards the (classical and pagan) gods.</p>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_41474" style="width: 1352px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/dorebrunettolatini.jpg"><img alt="dorebrunettolatini"

Il irait si bien dans ma chambre (le é c'est une expérience sociale)
#miroir #tdf #dore

Today's pick: The Destruction of Leviathan (1865) - Gustave Doré. #art #Doré #Isaiah

https://www.artbible.info/art/large/941.html

Today's pick: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (1855) - Gustave Doré. #art #Doré #JacobAndTheAngel

https://www.artbible.info/art/large/600.html

Medieval boss from Dore Abbey - the former Cistercian abbey at Abbey Dore in Herefordshire. The boss depicts the Virgin and Child with an abbot, possibly Richard Straddell or St. Bernard of Clairvaux. 📸 My own. #SundayStonework #Medieval #Dore #Herefordshire

#長園看展
多雷的版畫已相當為人熟識，然而，這般密集齊聚一舘的多雷「油畫」作品，太難得。

尤其那幅幾乎佔滿整面牆的《但丁與維吉爾在第九層地獄》，圖1-2，完全刷新對多雷的認知。

地獄各種人類該有的表情，皆表現得太過貼切。其實也是人間會有的表情，一旦揭開表面的偽善。

#多雷（Gustave #Doré，1832—1883）

Et voici un bouquet de gingko tout doré , immortel, qui habillera avec finesse votre salon . C’est le premier qui arrive sur le site . J’espère qu’il vous mettra des étoiles dans les yeux comme à moi.
#mastoart #mastoartist #artist #japon #lille #gingko #gold #doré

_The Evening Post_, 2 March 1925:
“MOTHER OF WIRELESS”
Mrs. #Dore, better known among enthusiasts as the “Mother of Wireless,” has severed her connection with 2YK #Broadcasting Station, with which she has been associated for some months in an honorary capacity. She has been responsible for many of the excellent concerts arranged for the listener-in, for which she has earned the lasting thanks of those who own wireless sets. Mrs. Dore is not leaving Wellington, but is merely giving up her voluntary work at 2YK.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250302.2.104
2YK became 2YA in June 2027 https://nzvrs.com/nz-am-radio-stations/ continuing to 1978

#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Radio #Music #Wellington #NewZealand

Black-and-white photo: Living/dining room interior. 1920–1925. Photographer unidentified. Description: Highly patterned wallpaper, furniture, an early radio and speaker, fireplace surround, and other decorations can be seen. This room, its furnishings, and decoration, could date from as early as the 1890s. The radio, however, dates from the 1920 to 1925 period. Ref: 1/1-010493-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22303108

Today's pick: Elijah's Ascension (1865) - Gustave Doré. #art #Doré #Elijah

https://www.artbible.info/art/large/201.html

#Dor%C3%A9

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